Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week after I quit my job at Willowbrook, I returned with a friend from Harvard and, together with Sally, we spent the day at the Staten Island Zoo. Sally was deathly afraid of the lions and tigers, as a normal child might be, but once we came to the part of the zoo where the ducks ran around she was unabashed in her desire to play with them. In these days when joys are hard to come by, I had an amazingly good time just watching my friend play with the ducks...
While Agnew kept his counsel, the men around him kept passing the word that the Vice President would not quit under fire-it just was not his nature. Indeed, as the week went on, Agnew seemed to be physically bracing himself for a fight. His face, always angular, took on a new grimness, and his eyes, always narrow when he is angry, became tight slits...
Legally, Agnew could fight an indictment for any possible transgressions so much more effectively as Vice President that it made no sense for him to resign unless he could have engineered a deal. The President could not force him to quit; he had been elected by the voters just as Nixon...
...dark of these nights, a part of Agnew must be tempted to quit. He realizes that he is an embarrassment to the White House. He knows that he has all but lost his chance to be the Republican candidate in 1976. And he must be tired of being humiliated by the President. Back in 1971, Agnew felt so strongly about his poor relationship with his remote boss and about the snubs of Ehrlichman and Haldeman, that he talked privately to friends about resigning then and there. The reason he stayed on is that he was convinced it would appear...
HARROWING. The poignant blue skies, the silver-clear air, the surf splashing on the rocky coast proved irresistible to Bob and Jan Plunkett (not their real names) when they vacationed in Maine four years ago. A year later, Bob quit his city job as a commercial artist, and the couple sank all of their $26,000 savings in a partially completed home 15 feet from the waves on an inlet in Maine...